Join us in knitting any Hanne Falkenberg design. For inspiration, check out her site http://www.knit.dk/billeder/ref.htm. Choosing a HF kit is a major investment - both financially and in time, so there is no start date or end date. So please, join in!

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Saturday, December 30, 2006

Santa Claus brought a Ballerina

The wonderful Santa Claus brought me a Ballerina in dark-blue/ivory as a Christmas present. Isn't this great?! Santa Claus knows about my favourite designer....btw ... this Ballerina travelled a lot through the world. My husband bought it for me via ebay from a lady in the U.S. Now Ballerina is back to Europe.....So I can start to knit my 3rd Hanne Falkenberg item. My Mermaid is already documentd in this blog. But I didn't share with you unitl now my special version of La Strada.

I did some changes to the original pattern because I prefer to have more a rectangular than a quadratic shape of the jacket. I called my version "Uliza" - this is the Russian word for La Strada. It is my favourite jacket to wear right now when the evenings are cold.... If somebody is interested in the pattern, just let me know.

I wish all the Hanne-knitters a wonderful new year with a lot of time for knitting (and money to buy more Hanne sets).

Hi,the pattern is ready published in the internet, but only in German until now:anleitungen.bestrickendes.dethan type "uliza" in the "suchen" field on the right hand side.for direct contact my email address:angela @ bestrickendes . de

Ellen, you mentioned the La Strada cast on.....I'm just now getting ready to cast on for an LS [ and just sent in a request to join the KAL] and am wondering what's the best way to cast on hundreds of stitches. Long-tail? Cable? Other?